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The offences against an individual which have increased most clearly in recent years are harassment, fraud, and sexual offences. The most common types of offences were threats and harassment, while robbery and serious assault were the least common. Of those offences against an individual reported in the 2017 SCS –Standard, 29 per cent were reported to the police. The total reporting rate increased from 24 per cent in 2005 to 31 per cent in 2013. It then decreased somewhat and was 26 per cent during 2014 and 2015; it subsequently increased to 29 per cent in 2016. The greatest reporting rate is for serious assault (65%) and the lowest is for sexual offences (11%).

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Homicide is the leading cause of death for African-Americans ages 15 to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Birmingham, homicides have increased 80 percent since 2014—and many of the victims and perpetrators are young men. Earlier this year, widely-reported murders of young black males raised concern among elected officials, law enforcement agents, and community leaders.

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As noted previously, Currie found that the lack of effective parental supervision has a strong relationship to delinquency. This raises the important issue of informal social control. The ability of adults to monitor and supervise, impose sanctions, shame, and otherwise keep young people in line through face-to-face interaction within important social institutions is an important variable in delinquency prevention. There is a considerable amount of criminological evidence that suggests that these informal mechanisms of social control, operating within families, schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, and social networks, play an important role in preventing youth crime and violence. As Minor (1993) points out, "Research has demonstrated that, during the course of childhood and adolescent socialization, the more meaningfully integrated persons become [into] those social institutions which promote informal social control, such as the family, school, and work, the lower the likelihood of delinquency" (59).

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In 2011, the majority of offences reported by police were non-violent in nature, with property and other Criminal Code offences accounting for about 4 in 5 police-reported crimes. Theft under $5,000, mischief, break-ins and administration of justice offences were the most common type of non-violent crimes.

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Police reported over 3,800 incidents of sexual violations against children in 2011. The rate of sexual violations against children rose 3% between 2010 and 2011, making it one of the few categories of violent offences to increase in 2011 (). Among the specific offences included in this category, the rate of invitation to sexual touching (+8%) and luring a child via a computer (+10%) increased, while sexual interference remained stable and sexual exploitation decreased 7%.

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Most provinces reported a decline in the rate of sexual assaults in 2011. Of those showing increases, Prince Edward Island was the largest (+22%), yet still reported the second lowest rate.

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Although African Americans experienced the largest absolute increases in incarceration rates, there is evidence that the black community was divided in its support for tough crime control policy. On the one hand, as discussed in further detail below, blacks have been generally less supportive than whites of punitive criminal justice policies, and survey data from as early as 1977 and 1982 show that blacks are less likely than whites to support severe sentences for violent crimes (Blumstein and Cohen, 1980; Miller et al., 1986; Secret and Johnson, 1989; Bobo and Johnson, 2004; Western and Muller, 2013). And while the attitudes of both black and white Americans have become less punitive over the past few decades, whites are

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As seen at the provincial level, most census metropolitan areas reported declining robbery rates. John's saw the largest decline, down 43% from 2010. However, some reported substantial increases: Barrie (+30%) and Greater Sudbury (+30%). With a 3% increase from 2010, Winnipeg continued to have the highest rate of robbery in the country ().